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The Pennsylvania Colony was founded by William Penn and others in 1682.
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The New Jersey Colony was founded by Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley in 1664.
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It was founded in 1732 by several colonists including James Oglethorpe.
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Boston, Massachusetts built the first subway system in the United States in 1897.
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The Maryland Colony was named after King Charles I's wife Queen Henrietta Maria
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New Hampshire Colony was founded by Captain John Mason, John Wheelwright, and other colonists in 1622, and was named after the English county where Captain John Mason was raised - Hampshire County.
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Virginia was the first of the 13 colonies to be founded
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he New York Colony was originally a Dutch colony called New Amsterdam, founded by Peter Minuit in 1626 on Manhattan Island
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he first settlement in the North Carolina region occurred in 1587. One of these settler's named John White was the father of the first English baby born in the New World.
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The Rhode Island Colony was founded by those who wanted to escape the lack of religious tolerance found in the other New England colonies. Its founder Roger Williams was a former colonist and religious exile.
